[2830] in java-interest
Re: warp pointer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christophe Meessen)
Tue Oct 17 06:13:17 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:21:35 +0100
To: julie melbin <julie@world.std.com>,
Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
From: meessen@cppm.in2p3.fr (Christophe Meessen)
Cc: java-interest@webrunner.neato.org (java)
>At 08:56 PM 10/15/95 -0800, Arthur van Hoff wrote:
>>Hi Julie,
>>
>>> Is there anyway to move the system mouse pointer from within a JAVA
>>> application/applet?
>>
>>I'm afraid not.
At 06:35 16/10/95 EDT, julie melbin wrote:
>And are there no plans to extend this in the future?
I don't think this is a good thing for a user interface.
It is the user that is in control of the mouse. Moving the mouse from
withn an application will confuse the user. It is totaly non intuitive.
this was one of my grief against OpenLook. The program or system would change
the mouse location.
This leaves the user in the unconfortable or frustrating impression that he
is not in control of the application or the system.
Anyway, even if it was passible/allowed I would never use it.
2c
Bien cordialement,
Ch.Meessen
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